Bengt Rösiö

Per Bengt Magnus Ingemar Rösiö (born 14 May 1927) is a Swedish diplomat and author.

Career

Rösiö was born in Åmål, Sweden, the son of district veterinarian Birger Rösiö and his wife Jonita (née Hedin).^[1] He received a Candidate of Law degree from Uppsala University in 1949 and carried out university studies in Dublin, Vienna, The Hague and Paris from 1947 to 1950 before becoming an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1951. Rösiö served at the legation in New Delhi in 1953, at the Consulate General in Bombay in 1954 where he was Trade Commissioner from 1955 to 1958^[2] and where he became vice consul in 1957. He was embassy secretary in Beijing from 1958 to 1959 and secretary at the Swedish Foreign Ministry from 1959 to 1961.^[1] There Rösiö was secretary of the administration investigation for aid to developing countries in 1960.^[1]

He was then first vice consul in Léopoldville from 1961 to 1962.^[1] Rösiö was administrative director of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation from 1962 to 1964, first embassy secretary in Washington, D.C. from 1964 to 1965, United Nations Deputy Resident Representative in Algiers in 1965 and embassy counsellor in Khartoum from 1966 to 1969. He was consul general in Houston from 1969 to 1971 and deputy director at the Foreign Ministry from 1972 to 1973.^[2] Rösiö was ambassador in Jeddah from 1974 to 1977, ambassador in Islamabad from 1977 to 1979, ambassador in Prague from 1979 to 1981 and ambassador in Kuala Lumpur (also accredited to Rangoon) from 1981 to 1985. He was then consul general in Montreal from 1985 to 1990 when he was appointed regional ambassador for French-speaking Central Africa at the Swedish Foreign Ministry. He left the post in 1992.^[2][3]

In 1991, following reports in the British press about a Belgian pilot who admitted that he shot down Dag Hammarskjöld's plane on 18 September 1961 (while Rösiö served as consul in Léopoldville), the Swedish government decided to launch a one-man inquiry which was conducted by Rösiö. He pointed out a number of questions in previous reports, but still came to the conclusion that the crash was an accident. Since it was submitted in 1993 it has served as Sweden's official stance on what happened in Ndola. Rösiö have later in the media doubted his own conclusions about Hammarskjold's death.^[4]

Personal life

In 1955 he married Joan Binns (born 1930).^[1] They divorced and in 1969 Rösiö married Görel Pernvik, daughter of the managing director Allan Pernvik and Barbro (née Hermansson).^[2]

Bibliography

• Rösiö, Bengt (2012). Ja: om att säga ja till livet - och lite sökande efter en tid som flytt [Yes: to say yes to life - and a little search of a time gone by] (in Swedish). Täby: Bengt Rösiö. ISBN 9789163711152. LIBRIS 14702376. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (2011). Jeurelle 3: en liten festskrift till en älskad maka [Jeurelle 3: a small festschrift to a beloved wife] (in Swedish). Täby: Bengt Rösiö. ISBN 978-91-633-8902-3. LIBRIS 12441688. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (2010). I huvet på en gammal gubbe: ett sista knippe olydiga texter [In the head of an old man: the last bunch naughty texts] (in Swedish). Täby: Bengt Rösiö. ISBN 978-91-633-7406-7. LIBRIS 12427549. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (2009). Hermelin bland katter: ett rapsodiskt och ganska kalejdoskopiskt collage av anteckningar, rapporter, artiklar, brev och annan skrivklåda i och utanför UD-tjänst 1947-2007 [A stoat among cats: a rhapsodic and quite kaleidoscopic collage of notes, reports, articles, letters and other writing inside and outside Swedish Foreign Service 1947-2007] (in Swedish). Täby: Bengt Rösiö. ISBN 978-91-633-5236-2. LIBRIS 11589161. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (2007). Ett diplomatliv: från Riyadh till Rangoon : [vår man i sjutton länder] [A diplomat's life: Riyadh to Rangoon: [our man in seventeen countries]] (in Swedish) (New ed.). Stockholm: CKM. ISBN 978-91-7040-051-3. LIBRIS 10416427. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (2006). Beskt, sötsurt och sint: ännu ett knippe olydiga texter [Bitter, sweet and sour and sint: another bunch of naughty texts] (in Swedish). Täby: Bengt Rösiö. ISBN 91-631-8685-3. LIBRIS 10284153. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (2003). Träl i paradis: nya texter om diplomati, makt och vanligt folk [Thrall in Paradise: new texts on diplomacy, power and ordinary people] (in Swedish). Täby: Bengt Rösiö. LIBRIS 9731525. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (2001). Kongo: anteckningar om Dag Hammarskjöld [Congo: notes about Dag Hammarskjöld] (in Swedish). Täby: Bengt Rösiö. ISBN 91-631-0942-5. LIBRIS 8365252. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (2000). Dagtingan och motvalls: texter om diplomati, hyckleri och annan vardag [Remission and contradiction: texts on diplomacy, hypocrisy and other everyday] (in Swedish) (2. tr. ed.). Täby: Bengt Rösiö [distributör]. LIBRIS 8237563. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (1998). Från Riyadh till Rangoon: snälla och elaka anteckningar från ett lite udda diplomatliv [From Riyadh to Rangoon: nice and nasty notes from a little odd diplomats life] (in Swedish). Stockholm: CKM. ISBN 91-88812-14-6. LIBRIS 7775517. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (1997). Ndola: en bok om Dag Hammarskjölds död, om FN, Afrika - och ett svek [Ndola: a book about the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, the UN, Africa - and a betrayal] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Nerenius & Santérus. ISBN 91-648-0107-1. LIBRIS 7460817. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (1995). Ndola eller Hunden som inte skällde [Ndola or the dog that did not bark] (in Swedish). Täby: B. Rösiö. LIBRIS 2075506. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (1988). Yrke: diplomat [Occupation: diplomat] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Norstedt. ISBN 91-1-883302-0. LIBRIS 7154983. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (1993). Åter till Afrika [Back to Africa] (in Swedish). [Täby]: [B. Rösiö]. LIBRIS 1567156. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (1978). Paxx (in Swedish). Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. ISBN 91-29-51611-0. LIBRIS 7234302. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (1974). Det ljuva liket eller Corpse diplomatique [The sweet life or Corpse diplomatique] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Rabén & Sjögren. ISBN 91-29-42871-8. LIBRIS 7232997. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (1970). Malesh: roman [Malesh: novel] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. LIBRIS 1466387. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (1968). Diplomat i u-land [Diplomat in developing country] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. LIBRIS 707377. 
• Rösiö, Bengt (1967). De vita städerna: en bok om Algeriet [The white cities: a book on Algeria] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Bonnier. LIBRIS 1466392. 
• Rösiö, Birger; Rösiö, Bengt (1949). Quo vadis, species humana?: Vart bär din väg, o människosläkte? [Quo vadis, species humana?: Where are you going, the human species?] (in Latin). Stockholm: Norstedt. LIBRIS 1413801. 

References

External links

• Bengt Rösiö at the Swedish Film Database